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Don’t get things twisted. I mean, wouldn’t you get a monkey, too, if you were as rich as Justin Bieber? That was the response the platinum pop singer gave GQ in a recent interview. But not everyone was impressed with his flippant answer. On Monday, the Rescue Center, an animal rescue and reha...

Fiscalía pide que se realice nuevo juicio por el crimen de Jairo Mora

The price of activism

Environmental activists experience more violence in Latin American than anywhere else in the world, according to the UN. In recent months, green campaigners were killed in Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Costa Rica. A Global Witness report published last year says of the 711 environmentalist deaths arou...

Costa Rican Murder Shines Light on Poaching, Drug Nexus

Murdered Costa Rican conservationist had been chased by AK-47-wielding poachers

The day Jairo Mora Sandoval was killed was not the first time he had stared down the barrel of a gun. Since 2012, the poachers of Moín Beach on Costa Rica’s northern Caribbean coast have become increasingly aggressive, according to local volunteers with Mora’s program.

An environmentalist campaigning for the protection of endangered sea turtles in Costa Rica has been found dead in a suspected killing by smugglers. Jairo Mora was reportedly found face down with his hands tied on Moin beach, 170km (105 miles) east of the capital, San Jose.

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